1977 at the age of 13

J.J.Flash Wrote:
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> 1982 just missed the tour. had to wait 7 LONG
> years!



The same with me.

73 with "Goats Head Soup" "Hide Your Love" and "@#$%&" were a kind of music I've never heard. And after 32 years I can hear GHS and it is so great as in 73.

Been a fan all my life. But full-time? In 2003 after seeing them for the first time.

Born in 1970, first became a fan in 1986, after watching a repeat of Stones In The Park on British TV.

- Full time Stones fan..... 1993 probably... 16 years old....
- A stupid @#$%&, without life, absolotully obsessed... 1995 later of see them in life by first time....

In 1980....the album Some Girls introduced me to the Stones...
"Before they make me run" from keith was my first personal hit.
Just after getting warm with the stones I had the honour to see them during the 82 european tour...after that I was lost.

1973 at the age of 12.

I was hooked by HTW as a wee lad.I bought Ya Yas at 13 and I have been seeing them on the road since Some Girls...havn't missed a tour since...

1969....the cowbell, then the drums, then that awesome guitar that i heard on the radio that day just blew me away...you all know what song i'm talking about!

1964. I'm 55 so by 1963 I was aware of the hit parade, noticed Come On & I Wanna Be Your Man, but it was Not Fade Away on Ready Steady Go that confirmed the Stonesaholic I have become.

First time - 1973 Got an 8-track of "Goat's Head Soup" for my 13th birthday.

Full time - 1976 -"Black and Blue" hooked me. It's still my favorite.

Bought Love you live and some girls in 1978. After that i became a stones fan on the age off 12. Saw them for the first time in rotterdam 4th of june, about 5 meters from the middle off the stage. Hels angels started to fight somewhere between whip comes down or lets spend, what i can remember and it was bloody hot. After that i saw them many times, also in the states 3 times M.S.G 98 and Pasadena,94

In the year 1976 they did 2 gigs in my home town the hague.That was a real big thing i was 12 and real exited,and hooked forever

It was in 1964 and I was 9 years old!! It was on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in black and white. I recall telling my parents that THIS was going to be with me for life. Seems as though I was correct!!
Imagination.

"Pass it on" (Keith talking about the music)

1974, 10 years old and ready to rock, got in trouble at 6th grade for wearing a stones t-shirt in 75, I screamed and cried for three days when my dad would not let me go to the Oakland 78 show. skipped a day in high school to buy a ticket for the 81 San Francisco show.

Way back when "Play With Fire" came out: my cousin played this song for me on his semi-portable reel to reel tape player - and I will never forget the sound - loved the Stones from that moment (always had more of a rock edge to them than the Beatles)....

1965 at th age of 11 yrs old My first show MSG 1972 Mick at the top of his game.

Fall, 1972. My neighbour lent me Exile on Main Street and I played it a lot. Then I bought Ya-Ya's in the Spring of '73, then Beggars Banquet. By the time they played here in Seattle on July 18th, 1975, I was ready to set the example of a dedicated Stones fan.

Re: anyone saw the Stones in 75-76?
Posted by: The Menace of Mayfair (IP Logged)
Date: May 17, 2004 01:20


I was hunkered down at the very front of the crowd of ticket holders at The Seattle Center Coliseum to see The Stones. In the very front of the line we were afforded police protection, police on horses, slips of paper that the police gave us if we wanted to take a stroll whilst waiting (the slips of paper would be presented to each layer of security surrounding the front of the line to prove that we were in fact one of those who'd arrived before 0600).

Luckily it was a sunny day. The concert audience was handled courteously by security. I was up front at the 'airlock' barrier between the audience and the stage. I got to say hello to Annie Leibowitz. The Stones did something no other band has ever done: Five minutes before the Stones portion of the show began half the house lights went down to let everybody know to get back to their seats. The other pleasant aspect to waiting for the show to begin was that string quartets played on the PA instead of grotty rock and roll.

Then of course the Stones came on, kicked major ass. I left drenched in water that Mick threw from buckets into the front row, and covered in confetti from the dragon. It was a night to remember.




"The wonder of Jimi Hendrix was that he could stand up at all he was so pumped full of drugs." Patsy, Patsy Stone

In September 1965 when Satisfaction knocked Help down from no 1 on the Norwegian chart.

Born in '61, so I remember hearing the Stones on the radio since the late sixties. Became "full time" in 1978 after the show in the New Orleans Superdome. Most attended indoor show then, perhaps ever. The sound sucked and the boys came on hours late, but I was fascinated by the experience. The shows just got better for me on each tour since, and I finally got to see them in London on 29 August '03.

Jeez...i'll go wtih the most recent...

1999. I had just turned 15. I always admired their music before, but I was never really "into" them as I had been with my other 2 fave bands...Aerosmith and U2.
I bought Flashpoint bc it had so many good songs on it and I realized they were amazing. After that I bought Bridges to Babylon b/c I'd always loved Anybody Seen My Baby. From there on I've been as true a fan as any.

Became a huge fan in 1984 at age 14, but not yet a fanatic. Started going to high school that year (graduated in 1988) and met lots of people who were into the Stones and other classic rock bands.

The thing that seems weird to me looking back on it now is that in 1986 when Dirty Work came out, I didn't even know it. I didn't read Rolling Stone magazine in those days and nobody I knew talked about it, even though I knew some huge Stones fans. I don't remember hearing anything about it on the radio; my local classic rock radio station never played anything from it. And no internet back in those days, at least not one the general public could access.

My friends and I were all just totally focused on their stuff from '63-78. By '86 I had bought all the Stones stuff and liked pretty much all of it except Emotional Rescue and Undercover. Out of those two albums I liked exactly one song, She's So Cold. (I've since learned to like a few other songs on EM but still don't like the album overall, and other than the title track still can't stand Undercover.)

We were convinced that all the good music had been made in the '60s and '70s and refused to listen to anything new, even if it was by older artists. We thought they were all done musically, between ER and Undercover and those two awful albums The Who put out in '81 and '82. We never went to any new record stores, just used ones. Remember that this was the '80s, when popular music sucked more than at any time in history: hair metal (Bon Jovi, etc.), Madonna, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, etc. To us at that time new equalled bad.

As I said, I was so focused on the old stuff I didn't even know Dirty Work had come out until a year later when I saw it in a used record store. I figured what the hell, I have everything else. Bought it and found it surprisingly good. I said "hey, maybe there is such a thing as good new music." Which is ironic, 'cause many Stones fans hate Dirty Work, but I've always dug the guitars on it (enough so that I can almost igonre the bad '80s production on the drums). And songs such as One Hit, Dirty Work and Harlem Shuffle are classics.

The first album I bought the day it came out was Steel Wheels. Then I saw them live for the first time that year. It was the most incredible show I had ever seen up to that point, and I was hooked from that moment on. I had gone from fan to fanatic and have been there ever since!



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